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Browse events by 'Cultural History'

Jan 2012
	Title
09 - 27	Rousseau 300: Nature, Self, and State This exhibition at the UCL Art Museum features rare items from UCL’s art and book collections to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the most controversial authors in the...	London, United Kingdom
19	University of Edinburgh research seminar in Scottish History These seminars will take place at 5.15pm.	Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Feb 2012
	Title
01 - 07	Department of History Film Season 2012 (University of Reading) The past is a four-letter word…and it’s film How do film-makers capture the past on the big screen? Is it possible to be historically accurate without...	Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
10 - 11	Nationalism and the City Blame it, perhaps, on a hangover from nationalism’s early mingling with European romantics, but the primacy of ‘the rural’ in nationalist imaginaries remains well established, recurring in...	Cambridge, United Kingdom
11	Georgian Coffeehouse Tour: with actors, musicians, and gritty black coffee Join actors, musicians, and Dr Matthew Green for a caffeinated tour of London’s original – and best – coffeehouses: from the City’s warren of medieval streets, through St Paul’s Churchyard, down...	London, United Kingdom
13	'Greek Temples in Crowded Lanes: Pugin in the Strand’, a public lecture by Rosemary Hill The Centre for Life-Writing Research at King's College London is pleased to announce a forthcoming lecture in its StrandLives series: six distinguished lectures, discussing life stories associated...	London , United Kingdom
15 - 17	Crisis: Interruptions, Reactions and Continuities in Central and Eastern Europe. The 11th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe Crises have been common in the history of Central and Eastern Europe. The term crisis implies that a particular order, whether financial, social or political is thrown into a state of...	London, United Kingdom
15 - 30	CFP: Political History Network 2012 Seminar Series The Political History Network provides an informal forum for modern political historians to present papers, discuss ideas and network. We particularly welcome postgraduate and post-doctorate...	Reading, United Kingdom
18	Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe This one-day symposium on Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe will bring together historians, art-historians and literary scholars from the UK, Europe and beyond to discuss their recent...	Alton, United Kingdom
22	Meet the Historian: Sally Alexander 'Meet the Historian’ events are an opportunity to hear at first hand from noted historians how and why they became historians in the first place, their thoughts on research and the discipline...	London, United Kingdom
25	Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2012: Junctions and Crossroads The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge is pleased to announce the date for its annual interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, the theme of which...	Cambridge, United Kingdom
25	Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage We are very pleased to announce that The University of York, UK, will be hosting the event Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage on the 25th of February 2012. This event...	York, United Kingdom

Mar 2012
	Title
02	Teaching with Images and Material Culture: innovations and best practice to improve student learning (with a focus on teaching north American history). Guest speakers from MMU, UEA and Glasgow will lead sessions about: art; visual images and public history engagement; ethical and practical issues when using lynching photographs; the use of...	Manchester, United Kingdom
06	Meet the Historian: Mary Beard 'Meet the Historian’ events are an opportunity to hear at first hand from noted historians how and why they became historians in the first place, their thoughts on research and the discipline...	London, United Kingdom
06	Lecture by Charles Webster: 'Paracelsus: Chemistry and Revolution' CHARLES WEBSTER was senior research fellow at All Souls College and previously Reader in the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,...	Oxford, United Kingdom
08 - 10	New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012	Sarasota, United States
09	Gendering the history of charity and voluntary effort: A workshop for postgraduate and early-career researchers From medieval and early modern elite understandings of charitable virtue to industrial cultures of mutual aid or contemporary understandings of community engagement, gender has been critically...	Huddersfield, United Kingdom
09 - 10	Women and the Media 2012: Representations Past and Present	Belfast, United Kingdom
14	Dissenting Studies Seminar Series The seminar will meet monthly on Wednesdays from January to July (excepting April) from 5.15 to 6.45 pm in the Lecture Hall, Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AR. All are...	London, United Kingdom
14	NMRN Research Seminar. Those they left behind: Naval families during the Napoleonic wars Dr Helen Doe, University of Exeter, will give a seminar paper on naval families during the Napoleonic period as part of the ongoing National Museum of the Royal Navy's Research Seminar series...	Portsmouth, United Kingdom
14	History of Women in the Americas The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW, formerly known as British Historians of Women in the Americas) will hold their fifth annual conference on Wednesday 14 March 2012 at...	London, United Kingdom
17 - 18	PG Colloquium: Cultural Construction in the USSR and States of the Former Soviet Bloc On March 17-18, 2012, the School of History at the University of Nottingham is hosting a postgraduate colloquium, initiated and organised by its own doctoral students, on the theme of cultural...	Nottingham, United Kingdom
23 - 24	Gender and Irish Society in the 19th and 20th century: new perspectives and new ideas Two-day conference – 23rd and 24th of March, 2012 Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences National...	Galway, Ireland
25 - 27	Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest This conference brings together some leading authorities to examine the relative importance of the Norman Conquest in shaping the fortunes of St Edmund's monastic community. Hosted at the...	Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom
29 - 31	UCL Neale Colloquium 2012: Emancipation, slave-ownership and the remaking of the British imperial world The colloquium aims to present the findings of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project...	London, United Kingdom
30 - 31	Solidarities that know no boundaries? Transnational Advocacy in Historical Perspective What inspires activists to embrace causes that do not directly affect them? What drives professions of solidarity for an individual, community or nation? This conference will explore the ways in...	Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
31	Deviance in Modern Irish History Workshop The study of deviance illuminates a ‘hidden’ history of human behaviour. Definitions of deviance and attitudes about what was the ‘norm’ reveal much about society and the conduct of people, both...	Limerick, Ireland

Apr 2012
	Title
02 - 03	Migration, Ethnicity and Identity: Perspectives from the Celtic Nations	Bangor, United Kingdom
02 - 04	The Royal Body The idea of the king’s two bodies, the body natural and the body politic, founded on the distinction between the personal and mortal king and the perpetual and corporate crown, has long been of...	Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
03 - 05	Social History Society Annual Conference The Annual Conference of the Social HIstory Society is pleased to announce the call for Papers for its 2012 Annual Conference which will be held at the University of Brighton, UK, 3-5 April 2012...	Brighton, United Kingdom